This week’s episode, “Freaks and Geeks”, was… well, it was grand. That’s a very Irish thing to say, ‘grand’. But it’s the best way to describe this. It was nice to see the return of Krissy (Madison McLaughlin), and she and her friends made for entertaining viewing, but the episode on the whole was a smidge too predictable. From the moment Dean spotted the blue van and Krissy mentioned Victor, we knew – to borrow the parlance of numerous shows – something was hinky. Honestly, if you could read our notes now you’d see that 10 minutes in we more or less 100 per cent accurately predicted the way things would turn out.
Though, if we’re being honest, we weren’t even fully focused on the episode (it really wasn’t enough to hold our attention). Mostly, we were trying to figure out if we were imagining the similarities between the entrance hall of Victor’s house and the entrance hall of the house of one Buffy Summers. Was that a deliberate nod to that other, far more famous and significantly better-written teenaged vampire slayer? We like to think so. But, honestly, that’s the only correlation one can draw to the classic Joss Whedon show. We could have wished for a more tongue-in-cheek, overt nod to the Buffy ‘verse. Supernatural has never shied away from satirizing other shows, or even itself, so why start now? Perhaps taking a leaf out of Joss’s book (or borrowing the whole book) would have saved this episode. As it stands, it’s just instantly forgettable. – K
Quoteworthy:
“Some sort of kids’ school for Hunters?”
“Don’t be such a dweeb, okay? We’re not the X-men.” – Dean, Krissy
Pond Hopping Girls 